Ok, I'm stuck in the blue swirly room.
Posted by NinjaBirdman (Member # 7114) on :
The only things that do anything when I click on them are the door and the button next to the door. And all they do is make a silly sound. Posted by Stan the man (Member # 6249) on :
I solved the blue room and have yet to figure out the red room.
Posted by Narnia (Member # 1071) on :
The yellow room is a trip too...I'm not spatially gifted.
Posted by MEC (Member # 2968) on :
There are three little circles you can press to light up the target in different colors, then click on the target.
I thought the red room was the easiest.
[ January 10, 2005, 01:00 AM: Message edited by: MEC ]
Posted by vwiggin (Member # 926) on :
I was having a really hard time with some of the levels until I figured out, hey I can just close this window!
Posted by Stan the man (Member # 6249) on :
Solved the yellow room. Posted by Liaison (Member # 6873) on :
Both yellow and blue so far....red is tripping me up. Posted by Vadon (Member # 4561) on :
Blue room with me.
[ January 10, 2005, 01:21 AM: Message edited by: Vadon ]
Posted by Jonathan Howard (Member # 6934) on :
How does the Orange room work?
Posted by Stan the man (Member # 6249) on :
Purple room. had to get pen and paper for that and trace it out.
Posted by MEC (Member # 2968) on :
*hint hint* Red was way easy, and i'm not even a gambling man *hint hint*
Posted by Vadon (Member # 4561) on :
In blue room, there's an orbiting black circle on the floor, does it imply how to solve it?
Posted by Stan the man (Member # 6249) on :
The blue room is actually quite...."amazing".
Posted by Vadon (Member # 4561) on :
Oh that, I did that part already, now I have this weird blue diamond thing spewing out the middles of the walls and ceilings and on the floor there is a black rotating circle.
Posted by Stan the man (Member # 6249) on :
oh, just click on bullseye in the corner of the cube to gop back. then solve another.
I don't get the gambling man reference.
Posted by Vadon (Member # 4561) on :
I... see, alright.
Posted by MEC (Member # 2968) on :
If i made the clue any more obvious, others might get dicey.
Oh and the black circle has to do with a latter puzzle.
[ January 10, 2005, 01:47 AM: Message edited by: MEC ]
Posted by Stan the man (Member # 6249) on :
Ahhhhh, I'm surprised I didn't see that myself.
Posted by signal (Member # 6828) on :
I'm totally baffled on most of them although I finally figured out the orange room.
Posted by Stan the man (Member # 6249) on :
Eh, I think I have it close, but I saved it for now and quit.
Posted by Vadon (Member # 4561) on :
Solved green. ^_^
Posted by signal (Member # 6828) on :
w00t!!! I beat the thing! #4871 on the scoreboard (with a shoutout to hatrack ). Very dizzying. Ok, I'm going to bed now.
Posted by Vadon (Member # 4561) on :
Victory is mine I tell you!
Posted by Corwin (Member # 5705) on :
I got both the blue and the yellow one. The red I don't get, and just for fun I tried the white. Ouch... So I'm back to getting them in the order shown on the wall.
Edit: I got the red...
[ January 10, 2005, 09:36 AM: Message edited by: Corwin ]
Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
Hm. It appears that my feeble human memory is going to require that I write down the position of some of these objects, like in the orange room. But I'm too lazy. Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
The user interface is too annoying for me.
Posted by Jonathan Howard (Member # 6934) on :
How do I know if and when I've solved a puzzle?
Posted by Annie (Member # 295) on :
Wow! The clear room is amazing!
Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
The room will go wacky moire on you.
As a note to people trying the white: it is not possible to fairly solve the white room until you have solved all the other rooms. By which I mean that the solution to the white room is provided by solving the other rooms, so anyone who "solves" the white room first did so through extraordinary trial and error.
[ January 10, 2005, 01:07 PM: Message edited by: TomDavidson ]
Posted by ReikoDemosthenes (Member # 6218) on :
oi...I can't even get past the first room...nothing does anything, save for make an odd noise...
[ January 10, 2005, 01:09 PM: Message edited by: ReikoDemosthenes ]
Posted by vwiggin (Member # 926) on :
I had similar problems with the first room until I turned up the gamma/contrast on my monitor. It is entirely possible that your settinsg are too dark for you to see what you need to get started.
Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
It's not giving away too much at this point to decipher the first room for people, although I think a lot of the fun comes in trying to figure out how things are supposed to work:
There is a door hooked up to a panel with colored lights. These colored lights must all be lit to power the small touchpad next to the door, which opens the door.
There is also a weird swirly object in an upper corner of the room. This swirly object is a teleporter that will take you to other rooms in the complex. Each of these other (color-coded) rooms also contains a puzzle, which will light the appropriate portion of the panel when completed.
To control the teleporter, you must locate three identical touch-sensitive "spots" in the first room; they're not hard to find, but they're more subtle than a lot of the stuff in there. Clicking on a spot will activate a color-coded tracery of "circuitry" that will eventually wend its way back to the teleporter control. At this point, the teleporter control will light up with a given color, indicating that pressing it will take you to the appropriately colored room.
In addition to the red, yellow, and blue rooms, there are also orange, green, and purple rooms. It is worth noting that the first three "primary" rooms each contain a certain "type" of puzzle; the later rooms, then, contain a puzzle made up of the two "types" mixed to obtain the necessary color.
[ January 10, 2005, 01:22 PM: Message edited by: TomDavidson ]
Posted by Carrie (Member # 394) on :
I don't get the white room. Yet.
Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :
I can't do the blue room. It's simple, but I'm still not fast enough.
Posted by vwiggin (Member # 926) on :
*Small Blue spoilers*
You don't have to move the mouse quickly in the blue room to solve it. Just rest your mouse on each block and move slowly to the next one. Two blocks are always lighted at all times if you move slowly.
Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :
Posted by xnera (Member # 187) on :
(will try this when she gets home)
Is this by the same guy who did the Viridian room? I still have not been able to solve that one. I keep running into a bug - an item that I was previously able to pick up on an earlier attempt will <i>not</i> let me pick it up now, which renders the game unsolvable. I need to try it again sometime. Maybe the bug has fixed itself.
Posted by Jonathan Howard (Member # 6934) on :
I can't solve Green, Yellow and White.
Posted by MEC (Member # 2968) on :
green and yellow you try to make all the walls the same color...and not black.
Posted by beverly (Member # 6246) on :
I have solved all the "colored" rooms save orange on my own. I was all proud of myself for figuring out something very crucial on the orange room. I thought it would be enough--but no, alas. I am stumped once again. I haven't even looked in the white room *yet*.
Anyone here solved orange?
Posted by vwiggin (Member # 926) on :
[ January 10, 2005, 03:03 PM: Message edited by: vwiggin ]
Posted by Carrie (Member # 394) on :
If my memory is correct, the orange room was fairly easy.
Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
A methodical approach is the best way to solve the orange room.
Posted by signal (Member # 6828) on :
POSSIBLE SPOILER...
For the orange room, its like a subtle version of the child's card game Memory. A really really subtle 3D version of the game.
The ones I had the most trouble with were green and yellow. The concept was easy to figure out for both of them, but just hitting the right combination of buttons took a while. I think it was because the other rooms had a strategy you could follow, where these rooms were more guess-and-check.
I actually thought there were going to be more "dark rooms" after you opened the door, because it reminded me of another game. It was called Logan's Mystery of Time and Space. It was this game I found on addictinggames.com a while ago that I've never been able to beat. I had a similar concept of trying to solve puzzles to exit rooms, but it was WAY longer and you couldn't jump from room to room. Anyone else play it before?
Posted by Jonathan Howard (Member # 6934) on :
OK, finished all BUT WHITE.
jmas5.7k@gmail.com
If anyone will be willing to explain to me what on earth do I need to do in White...
Posted by beverly (Member # 6246) on :
I got the orange room! And without seeing signal's post.
I made a breakthrough on accident that caused me to re-evaluate the situation.
Now onto white!
Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
"I think it was because the other rooms had a strategy you could follow, where these rooms were more guess-and-check."
There are actually strategies for the green and yellow rooms, too. Posted by beverly (Member # 6246) on :
*after seeing white*
Oh great....
Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :
I love the blue room, but I can't solve it!
Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
The blue room was my favorite room, too.
SPOILER: It's a moving maze, in which you can only see the step behind and the step ahead of you at any given time.
Posted by beverly (Member # 6246) on :
I used to think you needed some aspects of speed and coordination for the blue room. I kept getting frustrated because of it. Porter showed me otherwise....
Posted by beverly (Member # 6246) on :
I'm not sure if I have the patience to deal with the white room. 7 variables, six sets of three, nothing divides nicely. I just haven't a clue where to go from here.
Posted by Jonathan Howard (Member # 6934) on :
quote: There are actually strategies for the green and yellow rooms, too.
Yes, but I never heard electrons were coloured, as in White...
[ January 10, 2005, 03:33 PM: Message edited by: Jonathan Howard ]
Posted by vwiggin (Member # 926) on :
JH, I'm too lazy to log into my webmail. I posted the clue to the white room here:
White Room Posted by Jonathan Howard (Member # 6934) on :
Thanks, Wiggin. I always liked the Staring Game.
This time, I won't laugh, promise.
EDIT: No help, can't do it...
[ January 10, 2005, 03:43 PM: Message edited by: Jonathan Howard ]
Posted by beverly (Member # 6246) on :
Ahhhh, that clue was given earlier, but I didn't see it for the clue that it was....
Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :
TD, I know how to do it, I just can't!
I'm in the green room now, and that's... gah!
Posted by signal (Member # 6828) on :
edit: to note POSSIBLE SPOILERS
quote: There are actually strategies for the green and yellow rooms, too.
Well the green room had one and I'm sure the yellow room did as well, but at least for the yellow one, it came down to just hitting buttons until it was solved. I didn't really find a pattern to it. The green one was pretty much the same way, until right before I hit the last piece did I notice specific pieces glowing brighter on each wall. Doh! Must be because of my monitor settings.
[ January 10, 2005, 03:43 PM: Message edited by: signal ]
Posted by vwiggin (Member # 926) on :
I didn'tnotice a strategy for the green room. Did I just get really lucky and had the pieces fall into place by accident?
I couldn't figure out a strategy for the yellow room either. (See a pattern, I'm a freaking moron!).
*slight yellow spoiler*
Yellow just looked like a game with two sets of rules. The first set is like minesweeper, the second, the electoral college.
Posted by signal (Member # 6828) on :
electoral college? Could you explain that reference?
btw, that staring game is really twisted. Talk about doing anything to win.
Posted by Carrie (Member # 394) on :
Well, I'm done. And I only needed help with the white room. Oh, well.
I don't know what to think of a staring game on a computer... so I'm off to find more mindless activities instead of working Posted by vwiggin (Member # 926) on :
I think the majority of the people here don't want me to explain that reference signal.
Posted by beverly (Member # 6246) on :
Done!
I did need the hint on the white room. I think it would've taken me forever to stumble across it myself.
Posted by Annie (Member # 295) on :
Oh, I'm going to cry!
I've got everything but the green room done. I can get 5 walls lit up - all four walls and the ceiling, but every button on the floor turns at least one of them off.
Oh, I hate you, green room!
Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
Annie, here's a way to look at the green room: pushing a button makes that shape appear in exactly the same spot on every wall. If a shape ever overlaps an existing spot on ANY wall, the existing shape will go dark.
As the goal is to make the room completely green, this overlap is bad.
In order to achieve this goal, you will need to push one button on each wall.
Without revealing the easiest way to solve this, I will point out that, before you push any button, you can look at its shape and look at its relative positions on the walls to decide whether it would overlap any of the existing shapes.
If you have trouble placing the floor, try starting with the floor.
[ January 10, 2005, 05:19 PM: Message edited by: TomDavidson ]
Posted by Vadon (Member # 4561) on :
I thought the green and yellow rooms were easy!
*hint on green room* Look to the arrow thing you click, all other ones in that location also highlight. So you want to complete a box using arrows that fill it in from all over the room.
*hint on yellow* If you have one square but have yellow surrounding it, double click it.
Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :
DONE!
Posted by Vadon (Member # 4561) on :
I just did it again.
Posted by jeniwren (Member # 2002) on :
I'm such a loser. I don't get it at all. Not even the first part. Actually, I just figured out it was the *inside* of a room instead of a weird looking cube.
Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :
Jeni, it might help to turn the brightness up .
Posted by jeniwren (Member # 2002) on :
That did it, Teshi, thank you!
Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :
Yeah... that was my problem, too.
Posted by James Tiberius Kirk (Member # 2832) on :
Gah! Got through all except green and white now...
*possible spoiler: Hmm. I understand white though, so I can use the process of elimination with that one, can't I? There's only 3 possible choices.
[edit] yep, got White. Green is evil. Arg.
--j_k
[ January 10, 2005, 09:32 PM: Message edited by: James Tiberius Kirk ]
Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :
You know what solved green for me? Drawing out a configuration on paper. It was super-easy after that.
Posted by beverly (Member # 6246) on :
I actually drew a lot of these out on paper. I am decent at envisioning complex objects, but I am not that good!
Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :
(beverly, same here)
Posted by vwiggin (Member # 926) on :
When I solved the puzzle I thought to myself, "I knew playing Doom and Duke Nuke'em would help me out in real life!"
Posted by Corwin (Member # 5705) on :
Done!
And I have the best score! By a point... Might have something to do with the fact that I had to restart it several times 'cause I let other people try it on my computer too...
*SPOILERS* I was kind of clueless about the white, until I understood that the white itself was clueless and that I had to look somewhere else for clues. I wonder, were the *planets* in the other rooms from the beginning, or did they appear only when I finished all of those rooms?! And yeah, I needed pen and paper for orange and violet, green was ok even without although there was a trial and error phase and yellow resembled very much another puzzle I made sometime ago, but in a plane not in space. Once I figured out that when you click on an unlit square with only lit squares around it it doesn't light up it was easy.
Waiting for Dark Room 2!
Edit: Not first anymore... Oh well, I had my 20 minutes or something of glory!
[ January 11, 2005, 10:16 AM: Message edited by: Corwin ]
Posted by Annie (Member # 295) on :
I finished! I had nightmares last night about the green room. Oh, I am so relieved.
This is why I don't typically play computer games.
Posted by signal (Member # 6828) on :
(psst, Corwin, I don't think its by score. Its just the numeric order of when you finished. )
Posted by MEC (Member # 2968) on :
There are no points Corwin, that's the number you finished in. you were the 5487th person to complete the puzzle.
Posted by Corwin (Member # 5705) on :
signal, oh, that was just my big ego speaking! I see now that keeping a score while the people playing would have no idea what the score's about would be kind of useless. Unless you do something like least number of clicks / moves. Posted by James Tiberius Kirk (Member # 2832) on :
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). Very dizzying. Ok, I'm going to bed now.
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I need to try it again sometime. Maybe the bug has fixed itself.
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Might have something to do with the fact that I had to restart it several times 'cause I let other people try it on my computer too...